The Sun. — London, England, 1810-04-27 00:00:00

• is totally unfounded, and must ha:•e come from the b3ine mischieA.'ous, source from which so Many other reports have issued. HAMBURGH, APRIL g.—Thia day, for the first time,'we have seen thirty of the Russian waggons, called kititki, arrive here from Riga, filled' with Russian produce and: merchan-dize. This convoy will be , lollowed by fifty ,more. -waggons. Com- . - raerciol intercourse by sea is become so difficult and hazardous, that notwithstanding the great length of the journey, a trAtlic . over-land is conceived to be more ailvantdoeous. MAILS: AREIVED—I Gotteiiburgh, t Lisbon, t Wa ttfft,)l(l. E—l GOtteribliNll', Ca•liz, 2 . Dukilin, 2 Waterford. I' Li ii S u i. . • SOLEM QUIS UICZRZ FALSti7I A'JDEAT ? L 0, -N D 0 FRIDAY, APRIL ;37, 1810. .WE have received some more Spanish Paperi, which • fully. confirtri the sa!isfq6lory intelligence which has recently reached. us from the Peninsula. The spilden retreat of the French from before Va lentia was caused by the discovery of a treacherms pl in, which they had formiAl with some of the in hab:tatfs Of that city, to deliver it up. Tht, plot w4fortutiaiely discoveJect in time by the Governor, Doll V. Co,AA a ralition of the Marquis Dc Ro- NANA, acid iibol.ll , two hundred of the .9.thspiratois we:e t len up,. and .several bf thern *executed. .We regret to find that some of the pergons engaged in ;this conspiracy were persons of respectability in Ya kut ia. 'life intelligence brought by the Lisbon Mail to day is also ot a most sati4actory nature. The French are represented as retreating in ahnost every direc.tion, in consequence of :the multiplied attacks uhivii are made upon tl.3e.y: We have seen, how ever, some private letters, ivhich attribute:the re .trograde movements Of the French; to a dreadful cickuess which bad spread throughout their army. This morning German Papers to the 15th arrived, but they bring very little news. The King of BA VARI A, and the ottie. Princes of the Confederation ot . the Rhine, have received ordt!rs to repair 10 Pan.. A Guitenbuizh Mail also''artived, but it does not contain au article worth vxtraaing. We notice, with much pleasure, in the Newcas tle Paper of last SatUrday, that " during the Close of the last, and beginnLig of the present month, one 'tundra - Lund twenty-nine sfiips hove sai!ed from that pot% billy, for the th iiistf I\ol ttlA and unders!and a greater number of ships are engaged in the same trade furs . year than - at any former eeriod. - The determination to give a decided preference to - Timber the growth or his Majesty's 'Colonies in North America, is highly creditable to - Govern'men', not. only from the increased employ ment it will afford to British Shipping, but as it will' render the Nation more independent of foreigh ',Countries for supplies of the same article; It also increase our Exports ,to the British Colonies, and at the same tune considerably lessen. the drain '431 Si ecie to the Baltic, as,the cargoes anti freights front thence are mostly paid fur in Money; indeed, the.ex..enbion of the Trade and Fisheries of these Colonies become daily of more importance, and we tithit the 4-gislature will give such encouragenicnt, and adopt such I,ermanent regulations respeeting them, as will incite the, British e f ulonists to greater exertions, and also indlice then of eapitaLto . entbark I;argely in tltir 'trade. The length - of the voyages will occasten such an increased quantity of . Tonnqge t() b.. 1 employed, that the Timber. Trade to those Coloniesin a very short pCriod,- bccume air essential branch of the Nursery'ot British Seamen. We have giyen a de:ailed account of the proceed ini;i - of the Meeiin t g which )esterday:iook ',Lot: a. Ilacltoq. It is hardly necessary to state, that the bttiiiiess was carri,:d oo With chat acg; : ce -of lairlleS6 which alv:flys marks the eonatiLt of thtle diNtin gished Patriots—the2e advocates for fr(e discusc,i .o, tat is to say, they. would only. hear speeches cn one side of the question. 13y a stria adherence tO this rule, much Unnecessary altercation IS prevented and much tune is Saved. It sometimes-, 'however, happens, unluckily, that when pe!sons ate Opposed to be all one side,• they will quart'el among them aelves for want of an oppon6nt to attack. It hap pened so ystercl3y. Poor Mr. I3Y NG, w ho has. tried ai hard to ingratiate himself into the good opinion of .heBURDETTITES as Mr. WHITBREAD, experienced just a; ungrateful a return. He and the unfo;lnnale . .Talents were treated with all possible con tumely; .but iheyseem to beactuated towarfl the 13tj D ETT ITES by smite feelings as 'the Americans are towards the krench7--the more they are insulted, the more sub. roissive they become. Mr. WHITER 6! P, thutt.;ll an eter-tor of Middlesex,' did not attend the mee\ ing.--- _ We fear he has been rather indisposed, since the . • at tl;e Lone on T4mn on, Thqrsclay la,t, - NAVAL NEWS. PORTUGUESE PAPERS. 1 , PLYMOU:TH,. Aram 25.--Arrived the schconcr LISBON, Amt.,. . 14.--LCcitain intelligence has ' ROS Zephyr, "MclArtwAm .master, from Martinique, , ' ~ b een rece. - ved here that 13A LLESTE is With his laden with sugar and coffee. In. coming into the division at Ronquill6 ; the w hole coast of Ronda i s flee, and General BLAKE: iS MarChillg to Derperia Per_ harbour of Catwatcr, she missed stays, and drif te d • on the rocks under the Garrison, where she rentains, ros, at the head of 2.5,000 men. Nothing is known . with certainty of King JOSEPH ; .it is, however, said, and it is feared Will receive damage, - as well as the cargo ; but hopes are entertained that, as the tide t hat he has left Andalusia. In Cadiz, every thing flows, she will be got off, going on well. , The French have abandoned se, every assistance havin g 7 IS been sent for that puipase. ; .. H % veral 'points %% hid) they find occupied ; and it is . i Arrived the Peacock and two brig Sloops . of war generally thought that they will .soon eva‘ - nate the from a cruize. i whole territory.- -- . . _ . The Junta OfSeville` is aCAyamente, whether they removed on ihe 24.11 inst. The French are retreating from Olva in the di reCtionof Nuebla. 1 _ PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 26.—Sailed this day his Ma jesty's ship Owen Glendower, for New Brunswick, Quebec,.and Halifax,' with a large convoy of - tiler- chant men. ISailed his Majesty's ,ships Gannet, Goihazok, P - lot, Minotaur, and Liana; on a cruize ;_ also Sts Majesty's ship Albicore, with a . convoy for Guernsey ; also sailed his Majesty's ship"P;urydus, with a con voy of merchantmen for the MAncrianean; Vestal, Bntcps, for . Nevis and Barbadoes - ; . and the Stag, HOLLETT, for Msdeira ; with seVeral others for the West Indies, manes unknown. Arrivrd the Hiortaus, frign. Christiana for this Port, lade 6 with deals, ticc The East Indiamen it is expected ‘‘ ill sail in the coui se of a,dayor two. WEYNIOUTH, APRIL 26.—Tbe ship Larkins, Let- ter of Marque, frotn . Jhrnaica to London, .ANTHONY Cox•ris, Commander, srnt ,into this port last night the French schooner priv_►teer La Paul- mounting four carriage guns with small arms, and manned with thirty five men; after a most gallant a6tion- of one hour and a half she was cjrried by boarding; 'The French Captain anl 0 men killed, and several wo . unded The Lark?ns had 4 men killed, and several wounded:—. The privater, when taken, had been three days A rcport is curretn,wllfch seems to be well found ed, that the Duke of: ADRANTES has raised the out of St. - bdaloes, but made no captures. Great cred4 is dUe to the COmmander and crew of the ship Larkins, in boarding and carrying the privateer, as they were greatly •interior in number of men.— , privateer' has:lost her 'foremast. blockade of Astorga. All the accounts wb:ch we receive from Spain state,. that the French in that Country every %Atere meet with defeats. It was Gener,rl CARO ihibo ‘ , ' • placing thll?French that were marching from Sara go§sa to 'Valencia .(18,000 in omnber),,between two fires, put thew completely to the route. In Catalonia, the division of. Colonel SARSFIELD , composed Of 1000 foot and ti.) horse, frit in with a French diVisiun consiiting of 400 infantry and 50 cavalry, in' Mulla, attacked - and defeated it with considerable loss. FAL4OUTII, APRIL 24,,--Arrived the Duke of Marlborough packet, Bn %kb . a Mail in eight days from Lisbon. • SHEERNESS, APRIL 25.—Came down the River his Majesiy's sloop Osprey. AI rived his Ale.jcsty's brigs Briseis and B, itomur t. &min, 26:--Caine down theßivei his Majesty'sL ..brig Oberon. - It is also ►noun that the Spanish troops have entered Aranjuez, and taken there 6000 stand of arms, and that the French are retreating to Burgos. In ,Estremadura General BAILESTEROS is carry ing every thing before,him, and all the movements made by the French indicate an intention -to re treat. According to the last intelligence from Cadiz, the French have been conipelled to evacuate the post of Santa Maria, after an action, in wlkich the Portu guese regiment (No. Lo) took a share. The report of the French having raised the bleck - ade of Astorga is also confirmed. . • BADAJOZ, APRIL t 1.--=-Our combined army has defeated the French in Chiclana, Mulina, and Puerto. Real ; in consequtenCe of the said Aaiun, many wounded arrived' in St. Lucas, and our conmunica (ion by land with Cadiz is open. It iA also said, that our army intends to make a descent in Santa Maria, where the enemy has established his head quaiters, and that it would already have heeir ef feded but . 1ot:1115 boisterousness of ale weather. . General BALLESTEOS continues to occupy the. Sierra Morena, and - . to baraii`i the'euerny. 'General, CotonßA is this day to, art - keit Curia with his dif tikion. A dreadful explosion maybe daily.expeed, which, from the i tkied ener,;y of oitr Chie!s, and revived emhusi.ism of the army, IA ill, Ore trust, prose dys:rudive to the legiuns of harpies whidi desplate our Penibiola. 2APE-113. CAnn, Arum 2 . .—The following is a copy of•the Gozette Extraordinary, published atValencia :on the 14th otsMarcl) " The French, accilstothed to subjugate entire I<inordomshy means of treason and decilnion, con . 0 ceived that theße ,:arrie • artifice, would have enabled them to - obrain 'immediate possession of this capital,' and, sobsequeinly, of all the other to , ins of this flourishing kingdom of Valencia. With such joyful • exped,atioas, they Put in motion the greater part of the troops they had,in Arragon. z A division broke up from Alcaaiz, occupied Morella without difii ; culty, fell clown upon San Mat o, and 'made a rapid march by Burriol to .Muiviedro. The General in Chief, Count Suchet, marched with another division to Alventosa, ,where lie fell in with.the advanced guard of the division of 'Valencia,' which was . push, ing forward to watch his movements. He repeated ly reconnoiu - ed that position, and his sharp-shootets Were twice repulsed ; ,but having made a fresh charge with the : whole of his force, the advanced guard of the Valenciao di , ision found themsekes under the necessity of gi‘ ,: ing vv ay to superior num bers,'and, 'in conformity to thy orders communicatd to them, fell back upon ,Valencil, as did also the troups that Were in prrisonat lorella and San• j.Vateo. GERMAN PAPERS. BANKS OF THE ELBE, APRIL I3.—The' French Garrison at 1-I . ambnrg, consisting of several regi ments of the bivision of General MouTort, has suddenly Ur en diminished by two 'regiments, whb received orders some days ago to break up for. ci devant East Friesland; where they are to 6ccupy Em den,.w and the hole sea-coast, as far as Holland. . The Senate at Hamburg has been invited, or ra- , ther commanded, to attend at the Chppel of the French Government, at ,Hamburg, on ,he :red inst. when a Te Deum will be sung, to celebrate NAPO.. LEON'S second tnafriage.. - The Senate :ins al , io been oidered to give exfmt,ive fetes, on account of the same event, with illuminations, balls, &c. at the ex pence of the poor oppr,:ssed city. The hostile spirit of the Danish and Swedish Ca ! binets against Great Britain, at the request of France - • and Russia, becomes daily more apparent, froqi the, • ,t.l measure; token in both coontries, as well at in Prussia and.both PuttliJanias, to suppress the cutn- coerce and navigation of 4'nglanct or her allies. t , Private letters are received, via Paris, by some • French and Spanibll_ hotises in the North of Ger, • Many, stale, that the Fry nch besioging corps before Cadih hns very - !ieverely from the Combined Spam At, British, acid Portugue,e forces. The N!iierican ship, that lately. arrived 'at ron , ningen, and which could not olstain leave to . un i load as•fast a 4 they'Avished, 'have sailed from the river Eider for the Baltic. " Sue:het, after pillaging Segorbe, ..united at -Murviedro both his, divisio s, consking of 12,000 infantry aml ith 30 field-i.iet es. He moved forward on the sth, and establish -d his head quarters in Puig, as King D. Jaytne I. did, to make .preparations for the conquest oloVlyncia. The same day, at dusk, pert of his advanced guard,- un der the cominand of General Abell, cinered the subbib called the , suburb of Murviedro ; and ti.e city received them vial several discharges of ar tillery. er His Excellency Seignior D. Jose Caro, Captain' G-.±neral of thig.army and kingdom, had taken.'all the measures of precaution that might have:been. ett- . pet4ed from his activity, intelligence, Arid accredited Wriotistn. -He had securely fortified the city, and distributed its defenders in Truer station,. Tl.- re was no deficiency of stoics or pr..vision,; and in his provident foresight, lie ordered the Sup er i o r P ro - The Isprds of the Admiralty have proposed t o lady vincial . Junta; consisting of the rei,resentati‘:'rs of CoLLINGWOOD, arift , the•relatiirres or the late Lo r d the distii&s, to assemble in the city of S. F e li ve , „C /LLINGWOOD, I hat his Lordship's remains should be - - 'deposited in St. Paul's Cathedral. The bodyis on board . that they might thence forward every another Junta Lto town untilevery kind of sue— the frigate in the Lads' bot.LNtGwomi's pleasure 'is llownS; and •will-not be brought. w cum. that might be necessary ; of Military Police established 11:!re . was chstising, made known to the Lords of the Admiralty.. with the confiscation of their kstTetis, those who Another large field beyond Sorners Town is forgetting that it a: their chity to employ them for about to he covered with.hons e s, f or the purpose 91 the relic-f of their country, bad aband o n e d their ba . assisting London in its proeros towards York ! bitations anti 1.1,1 e city i and was also occupied in;as: BANKS CV THE ELBE, APRIL 6.—lntelligence has been reeelv, LI here, that the Duke or OLDENBURG, by order of the French Government, has beedpe remptarily desired to lay an embargo on all ships and goods shipped, or intended to be shipped, in his Duchy. At \rare!, when Abe' last letttss came away, the embargo had been laid, and- by t&e c,mman(' of the French all goods,' either imported or for exportation, wer e put under a seal. 5 - 71nloUrtg, at viiiious points, for the. purpose of making them useful in-any service that offered, g number of peasants, who had entered the city, and ,were wandering about the streets. '!'ho soldi , n; ,were animated with ardour; the Militia Were filled - with a noble spirit; the students were anxious to evince their skill - in the exercise of the artillery ; the liglt troovs . Were gager to surpass their former feats, and pledged themselves that- the army of Sue:let should experience the tragic horfors of .death and carnage to a greater extent than they had-inflified them upon, Moncey in 1803 ; and the whole of the inhabitants, fully satisfied With their worthy Ge neral, and the Officers under his orders, remained • as tranquil its in time of peace, and looked do - No " with contempt tThon the enemy, whom they sew in their suburbs. Sonic of the Fre,-cli attempted . to approach the walls ;—they ,met with death. Others directed their march to Grao, and the neighbour- • ing towns and villages. They Were opposed by par ties of light troops, who disputed every foot of "ground,. with them, _and' made them fly at various points. 'Those valiant sons of Mars swarm in every direaion, as it they had suddenly sprung up from the earth ;, and they compirtely cover the smiling b "n';s of - the Turia with the dead bodics of (Ltd Frk•rich. •" Some of the French also the Palace del Real, and-pay dearly for their audacity; staining with their blood its spacicuS halls and d licious gar dens. Suclvt fares not approach., ,From the camp of Puig . he sends, on the 7th, a ilhg of truce, offer ing, as. the means of escaping the calarriities of a. siege, pt'oteCtion and pvace, it Valencia should be disposed to surrender;. and prote'tting that he comes -not to make war upon this h.,ppy, capit a l, nor to lay - waste - her delicious fields ; and this he says at • the moment when every body sees him a&u:tlly employ— ed in de.astatiug them. -The Capt.-General an-• swers hint with the spirit and sincerity which:belong to his illustrious pedigree, and the Ayuntantienta, with that 6delity which charaderises all its mem bers. Sticliet remains at Puig, waiting "the result of ',the tumult which his partizans were to create on the' 'loth, in 'order- to destroy the General, and•thepa' - - triots most conspicuous for their loyalty, and 16 throvv open to - him • the gates ; but the Lord has cotripassion upon this faithful city, .and so orders it. that a few days .before- the authors of this conspiracy are discovered and secured. " .With this Wish the hopes of Sucher, arid he at tileiatue time exptriances other. events equally contrary to his expectaticins; for the instant the re port was spread of the arrival of the French, it seem' ed as if all the towns.in tie kingdom were to be de populmed. All the inhabitants eagerly ran to artni, .the - roads leading to 'Valencia were crowded with. militiamen, toot and horse, and p irties of, sharp h oters NT,-ither tlie Superior Provincial Junta, nor the Coregidors of Alcira, S. Felipe, ikienYV Dent, and the oilier towns of the kingdom, find , any .xertion on their part necessary to animate the inhai itants, and direct their attention exclusively' to • supp y Valencia stores, provisions, and money , and to the providing of the Militiamen and sharp showers with whatever they are in. want of. Ai l cla . s.scits are hakening to the field, and in impatient expeCtation or the moment when they shall -lea' st;e.'iheir strength wi h the enemy, and convinc e . him that IL.' will not find it so easy a task to conque•l' on the of the Tcria . a. in the fields of Afa' repgo. Au teriihi, Jena, T r i n i t , and v i ,r agr arth Sucliei is aware of he perceives that lie is 01 f the rint of being attacked , • lie is apprehensive an ign ininious defeat; ^ and there!orei taking 0 1° by the forelock, and availing iiiinse:l of the dark" ness o: ,he betakes liims , •lf to a coward l y flight , abal,doning Much etletts , and provisions, and a great,. part of .the-booty.which French rapine ha" collected ; . .and by tlie. dawn of the . I Ith they •Nv el.° at. a great 'distance from Valencia, cl;reaing Od er nvircii upon Arragon. - • f.` Thus does Valencia add to her glories, that al thp,rpopieuf when one of :,her sons, his'Excellen c Y the Marquis de laßOinana, is ptitiirifr the-French t ° flight et,Estratnadura, another of her sons, his F , K' cellency D. Jose Caro, has tot t'fied her, defends her, vit.o.rescues Poin those pet fidious entrmies.. 5 " feels a wellAnimded - pride in having, within 114 space of 20 months, to ice %anguished them, re-= puised.them from her walls, and driven them out the kingdom, and tmn tests to the Other cities -03 they may obtain equal triumphs if their inliabitan t : are united in the spirit of fidelity ; if their hearts or aniniated with an extraordinary impulse of iraiou r .i . and a sacred resolution, to conquer or die and 1 their operations are directed by a General of accre' diced te;•ination." • The following is an extraa of apr ivate letter t- -- " cADjt, APRIL 7.-- There'has been some fighti li g, in Esrramadura, in -which, according to th'e received here,. we have had the advantage. As to o r situationliere, all seems to go 'on wull; and we 10 ° a strong garrison to, o pp ose the enemy. The ithi r. quis de la ItotTiltra ii between Seville and Cadiz i t/ some force, and .harasses the French greatly. About 2000 English troops have been. landed' constant fit'ing is kept up against the French baf teries.'' Provisions are getting scarce and dear ; is now at 2S. per Ib. and I all ot.r:r antic es in proFor!' tione The Jtintieare dissatisnc'd with Cic ., neral querti9e, in. Coaszloence of his,..having s tated sentiments against their ,procelAing.s. to ,the pes 6 P ie of He is going.to Amhassaddr• - : As the enemy keepo near Cadiz, tt is intend', ed soon to act on t otfctisive, and io mike sorties/ which we hope will prot.e successful. The funeral of-the Lord Pruvyst of E.,inburgb, on 1140fid:iy was cohdmcred ikrith great sile,,door, • al) the twialdic ceremonies appropriate.to.the occa siOn, were m•nutely' - atiended ion The City arms borne by. a nun six feet seven inches high, I ,4; s ssed in, ancient warlike COAtUllie. - .-....*YeSlerdity 'was- dia-rte,d, by sp&eial Jicense, di e most Noble the Ma; - qs. of DOUGLAS and c L YDEW DALE (eldest sun of his-G. - ace the bake of HAstr' TON and BRANDON), to Sus EUPHIMIA, rAlngagt daughter of Wit.LIA'N BlicxFoßD, Esq. of by the Lady MARGARET . GORDON, only daughter - ° CHARLES Earl of ABOYNE„ • .CORN EXCHANGE, APRIL 27.—There are sever-, 'fresh arrivals of Foreign Wheat, a n d the l a t e deman d ,causes this trade'to maintain last p r i ces ; Mrlcy Malt likewise, and in good snpnly ; Peas at. fluctuation ; Beans of the two ki n ds are dearer, N'" Tia436vto 465. per Quarter ; there are-also tolq't rahle supplieS of Qats,,part..F.in•ign, and sales thero l at little variation i • Fluur remains aelate.prices. fl 1 `~ 1 M ILie s , I 's turr, Pure 14 1'1 Wort at r.,•( 11; ~Q~